Ion acceleration and neutron production in hybrid gas-puff z-pinches on the GIT-12 and HAWK generators

0531916 - FZÚ 2021 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Klir, D. - Jackson, S. L. - Shishlov, A. V. - Kokshenev, V. A. - Rezac, K. - Beresnyak, A.R. - Cherdizov, R. K. - Cikhardt, J. - Cikhardtová, B. - Dudkin, G. N. - Engelbrecht, J. T. - Fursov, F. I. - Krása, Josef - Kravarik, J. - Kubes, P. - Kurmaev, N. E. - Munzar, V. - Ratakhin, N. A. - Turek, Karel - Varlachev, V. A.
Ion acceleration and neutron production in hybrid gas-puff z-pinches on the GIT-12 and HAWK generators.
Matter and Radiation at Extremes. Roč. 5, č. 2 (2020), s. 1-10, č. článku 026401. ISSN 2468-2047. E-ISSN 2468-080X
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF16_027/0008215; GA ČR GA16-07036S
Grant - others:MOBILITY FZU(XE) CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/16_027/0008215
Institutional support: RVO:68378271 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : Z-pinches * ion acceleration * neutron production * GIT-12 generator * HAWK generator
OECD category: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics); Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics) (UJF-V)
Impact factor: 2.845, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Open access

Z-pinch experiments with a hybrid configuration of a deuterium gas puff have been carried out on the HAWK (NRL, Washington, DC) and GIT-12 (IHCE, Tomsk) pulsed power generators at 0.7 MA and 3 MA currents, respectively. On GIT-12, neutron yields reached an average value of 2 x 1012 neutrons, and deuterons were accelerated up to an energy of 30 MeV. This was 50times the ion energy provided by the generator driving voltage of 0.6 MV and the highest energy observed in z-pinches and dense plasma foci. To confirm these unique results independently on another device, we performed several experimental campaigns on the HAWK generator. Comparison of the experiments on GIT-12 and HAWK helped us to understand which parameters are essential for optimized neutron production. Since the HAWK generator is of a similar pulsed power achitecture as GIT-12, the experiments on GIT-12 and HAWK are important for the study of how charged-particle acceleration scales with the current.
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